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<p>The QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase provides an interface for editor factories. <a href="#details">More...</a></p>
<pre> #include &lt;QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase&gt;</pre><p>Inherits <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/qobject.html">QObject</a>.</p>
<p>Inherited by <a href="qtabstracteditorfactory.html">QtAbstractEditorFactory</a>.</p>
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<p>The QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase provides an interface for editor factories.</p>
<p>An editor factory is a class that is able to create an editing widget of a specified type (e.g&#x2e; line edits or comboboxes) for a given <a href="qtproperty.html">QtProperty</a> object, and it is used in conjunction with the <a href="qtabstractpropertymanager.html">QtAbstractPropertyManager</a> and <a href="qtabstractpropertybrowser.html">QtAbstractPropertyBrowser</a> classes.</p>
<p>When using a property browser widget, the properties are created and managed by implementations of the <a href="qtabstractpropertymanager.html">QtAbstractPropertyManager</a> class. To ensure that the properties' values will be displayed using suitable editing widgets, the managers are associated with objects of <a href="qtabstracteditorfactory.html">QtAbstractEditorFactory</a> subclasses. The property browser will use these associations to determine which factories it should use to create the preferred editing widgets.</p>
<p>Typically, an editor factory is created by subclassing the <a href="qtabstracteditorfactory.html">QtAbstractEditorFactory</a> template class which inherits QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase. But note that several ready-made implementations are available:</p>
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<p>See also <a href="qtabstractpropertymanager.html">QtAbstractPropertyManager</a> and <a href="qtabstractpropertybrowser.html">QtAbstractPropertyBrowser</a>.</p>
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<h3 class="fn"><a name="QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase"></a>QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase::QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase ( <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/qobject.html">QObject</a> * <i>parent</i> = 0 )&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt> [protected]</tt></h3>
<p>Creates an abstract editor factory with the given <i>parent</i>.</p>
<h3 class="fn"><a name="createEditor"></a><a href="http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/qwidget.html">QWidget</a> * QtAbstractEditorFactoryBase::createEditor ( <a href="qtproperty.html">QtProperty</a> * <i>property</i>, <a href="http://qt.nokia.com/doc/4.6/qwidget.html">QWidget</a> * <i>parent</i> )&nbsp;&nbsp;<tt> [pure virtual]</tt></h3>
<p>Creates an editing widget (with the given <i>parent</i>) for the given <i>property</i>.</p>
<p>This function is reimplemented in <a href="qtabstracteditorfactory.html">QtAbstractEditorFactory</a> template class which also provides a pure virtual convenience overload of this function enabling access to the property's manager.</p>
<p>See also <a href="qtabstracteditorfactory.html#createEditor">QtAbstractEditorFactory::createEditor</a>().</p>
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